| Vadim Zakharov |
 Der See der Vergessenheit / Lake of Oblivion, 2000 In his piece Der See der Vergessenheit / Lake of Oblivion the artist Vadim Zakharov, a member of the circle of Moscow Conceptualists, projects a video on sects and modern "prophets." The translated text accompanying the video can be listened to on headphones in Latin, Old Greek and in the Gothic language. Zakharov demonstrates in this work ironically, how sects are utilizing oblivion as a drug and in addition he refers to, by means of the dead languages, an omnipresent culture of forgetting. His topic is, on the one hand, the conscious manipulation of memory by religious groups, and, on the other, the abundance of information and images in the media, leading to "waves of amnesia," to a constant deleting and replacing of information. Vadim Zakharov, * 1959 in Duschanbe (formerly UDSSR), lives and works in Cologne (D)  Vadim Zakharov, Der See der Vergessenheit / Lake of Oblivion, 2000video installation (colour, sound) 30 min., loop courtesy Vadim Zakharov
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